Membership Benefits

What are the Benefits of Membership?

Your annual membership subscription to Gwynedd Family History Society helps the Society achieve its charitable objectives.  The work of the Society includes:

• Producing 2 copies annually of our journal Gwreiddiau Gwynedd Roots which publicises our activities and shares family history stories.(A4 in size and full of interesting articles both in Welsh and English – last issue was 64 pages).   
  Members can publish their family interests in the journal.
• Arranging regional and Zoom meetings with a varied programme of speakers.
• Help from officers and others who have specific area knowledge and are fluent Welsh speakers.
• Access to a “members’ only” area on our Society’s website to update personal data and interests.
• Providing access to the Society’s Resource Centre in Caernarfon which is open on the afternoon of the third Saturday of each month.
  Here you can access all of our resources and seek advice from officers’ and others on brick walls you may have.
• Providing access to the large number of publicationss that the Society produces which are also available to buy from our website:
  • • monumental inscriptions from churchyards and chapel cemeteries across Gwynedd
    • indexes to selected parish registers and 1851 census etc.
• Providing access to our wide range of  library collection with a loan facility. Currently we hold over 1,400 items relating to family history and local history relating to Gwynedd.
• Providing access to our manuscript collection,, including donated family history/trees for reference in our resource centre.
• We also have a big collection of birth, marriage and death certificates which have been donated to the Society
• A limited look up request service for those who provide us with the names and known dates and we’ll check for information in any of our publications, manuscript collections or books. This is very useful for those who are unable to visit our Resource Centre. 
• Opportunities to join a project to record a churchyard / graveyard.
• Opportunities to volunteer to become a member of the working Committee to help with the general running of the Society. (Extra helpers always welcomed by the Committee).
• Opportunities to help on our stand at various events (Welsh National Eisteddfod (when in North Wales) & Family History Fairs).